Frode Lindemark

TL;DR: The extra costs and expected health gains associated with admission to the ICU versus the general ward for 30,712 patients and the variation in cost-effectiveness estimates among subgroups and individuals are described and a distribution-weighted economic evaluation incorporating extra weighting to patients with high severity of disease is performed.

TL;DR: This study shows that it is feasible to identify who are the worse off empirically by the application of lifetime QALYs and proportional shortfalls, and ease further examination of whether there is a true conflict between maximization and equity or whether these two concerns actually coincide in real world cases.

TL;DR: This is the first recalibration of SAPS II for Nordic data using data from the Norwegian Intensive Care Registry (NIR) to improve the calibration of Saps II.

TL;DR: The severity of the condition is no longer considered as part of the evaluation process, which means that patients with low levels of severity now have a right to receive treatment, and a new "don't do" list of 40 conditions was created, which may prevent unnecessary treatment.

TL;DR: The authors' research demonstrated a novel way of using routinely collected registry data to estimate and evaluate the expected lifetime outcomes for ICU patients upon admission, and raised the question whether availability and rationing of ICU services are too strict in Norway.